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Senior Alyssa Rodriguez spent the summer evaluating the manic pixie dream girl, a trope often found in modern media when a quirky woman advances the plot for male characters.

Summer scholar analyzes ‘manic pixie dream girl’ in pop culture

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life and Culture Editor September 1, 2016
Quirky, obnoxious and unique. These traits create the “manic pixie dream girl” trope that Ithaca College senior Alyssa Rodriguez explored this summer in collaboration with Katharine Kittredge, professor in the Department of English. Rodriguez’s project is funded by her Emerson Humanities Collaboration Award, an annual IC award that provides students with financial support for scholarly projects.

Interactive: Professors share narratives of lifelong activism

By Kelsey O'ConnorShawn Steiner, Editor-in-Chief and Photo Editor December 13, 2012
For some Ithaca College professors, protesting is how they do their part to enact change in the local community and in the classroom.
Ithaca College professors apply lifelong activism to classroom

Ithaca College professors apply lifelong activism to classroom

By Kristen Mansfield, Staff Writer December 6, 2012
Ithaca College professors share their past and present activism experience and how they apply it in the classroom environment.
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